Twice a day we pull the posts going viral on TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook and run them through the record. Each entry is a published verdict — what we found, why, and the sources behind it.
X · Video post: 4,732 likes, 1,033 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); Twitchy pickup
True
The video is authentic footage of Hillary Clinton at the live Pivot podcast recording, and her remarks — including the call to summon Elon Musk even if pardoned — are accurately captioned and confirmed by independent reporting.
X · 89,969 likes, 1,386 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); HuffPost, Daily Wire, Twitchy coverage
True But
The caption is accurate: on 5 November 2026 Gavin Newsom commuted all 548 California death sentences to life without parole, the largest mass commutation of death sentences in modern US history, though many of the commutations still need California Supreme Court concurrence. The attached official-style portrait of Newsom shows no sign of manipulation and is purely illustrative.
X · 6,480 likes, 426 replies (X syndication); RyanAFournier repost 8,726 likes; Fox News article 6 Nov
True But
Abdi Daisane's election to the Minnesota House on 3 November 2026 is confirmed by multiple independent outlets, and the daycare's licensing record is well documented, but the post's portrayal of his wife as having 'bragged about illegally invading' the country is a loaded characterisation of a translated 2023 BBC interview, with her legal status unverified.
X · 12,460 likes, 3,967 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); Twitchy pickup
Misleading
The photograph of Jamie Raskin is a genuine press image, but the post mischaracterises what he said: in his interview he named background checks on private gun sales as a priority, not 'universal gun registration', which is the gun-rights group's own framing.
X · 3,455 likes, 55 replies (X syndication); Mimikama fact check 5 Nov, still circulating in German-language posts
Can't Verify
The image is the genuine ItaMilRadar interference map for 3 November 2026, and its caption accurately describes what multiple defence outlets independently reported: a near-continuous band of strong GPS jamming along NATO's eastern border from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The post correctly avoids naming a culprit, though coverage notes the map cannot identify who caused the interference.
X · 31,826 likes, 6,513 replies (X syndication); White House RapidResponse47 rebuttal 10,104 likes; Daily Beast
True
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins reported accurately that the White House blocked CNN, the scheduled TV pool outlet, from President Trump's 5 November 2026 Oval Office event, leaving the five networks without pooled audio or video of his remarks. The text-only post is confirmed by same-day reporting from TheWrap and HuffPost.
X · Google Trends IE "bomb scare rte" 20000+ (6 Nov); TheJournal, Irish Independent coverage; post 47 likes
True
The video is genuine on-scene news footage from outside the Irish Independent's Dublin offices on 6 November 2026, and its claim that Irish media organisations were evacuated after emailed bomb threats is confirmed by Gardaí, AFP, BBC and the Irish Times.
X · 4,019 likes, 975 replies (X syndication); MacIntyre announcement 8,444 likes; The Poke, Guardian sketch
True
The video is genuine footage of Nigel Farage speaking at Reform UK's 5 November 2026 London event, and the caption's two checkable claims — that Angus MacIntyre is Reform UK's new 'shadow armed forces minister' and that he served 40 years in the military — are both confirmed by independent reporting.
X · 9,403 likes, 441 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); Maldita check 6 Nov
Misleading
The video is genuine footage of an Eid al-Adha prayer held with IKEA's permission in the car park of its Freiburg store in May 2026, but the caption misrepresents it as Muslims seizing IKEA car parks across Germany for one of their daily prayers.
X · Trending story 329.7K posts (US-geo X stories list, 6 Nov ~03:00 UTC); AmiriKing post shown at 458K views, 13K likes; JK Rowling reply-style post 2.7M views pushing back on 'conviction must be wrong' posts
Misleading
The image is a genuine screenshot of a real Hollywood Reporter article: Russell Brand was indeed convicted of one count of rape and three sexual assaults at Southwark Crown Court on 5 November 2026. The account's caption, however, is misleading — it denies the existence of any evidence ('NOTHING') and mocks the complainants, ignoring the testimony and supporting witnesses on which the unanimous verdicts rested.
X · 25,065 likes, 1,219 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06 ~03:00Z); embedded by The Blaze 5 Nov; post-midterm AI-stock selloff widely covered (NBC, Axios, Forbes, Benzinga)
True But
The heatmap is a genuine intraday snapshot of the 5 November 2026 US market rout, and the claim that it produced a record single-day market-cap loss is largely correct: Dow Jones Market Data put the S&P 500 companies' loss at about $2.9 trillion, a record, topping the roughly $2.69 trillion of 16 March 2020, though the $2.8 trillion was an intraday figure and some whole-market estimates are smaller.
X · 17,244 likes, 1,068 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06 ~03:00Z); fact-checked by Lead Stories 5 Nov · resurfaced
Misleading
The video is genuine footage of Lancaster County DA Heather Adams' October 25, 2024 press conference, but the post presents it as a brand-new, 'breaking' 2026 voter fraud bust just after the midterms. The 2024 investigation was real; the 2026 framing is false, and the case was already resolved in April 2026.
YouTube · Telegraph 4 Nov, then Mail/Express/Mirror/Independent/HuffPost/GB News 4-5 Nov; Guido Fawkes 'every common item set to be banned' list (4 Nov) and video (5 Nov); 'smoky bacon crisps banned' in GB autocomplete (previous run)
True But
The Environment Secretary, Dame Angela Eagle, did tell a Times Radio interviewer to "get a life" when asked about a possible smoky bacon crisp ban under the UK's EU reset deal — the exchange is quoted verbatim by multiple mainstream outlets. The only overstated element is the headline's 'incoming ban' framing, since the EU rule in question is a proposed labelling restriction with a proposed snacks exemption, not a confirmed ban.
X · X trending story page shows Lowe post at 549K views, 38K likes, 4.1K reposts; TalkTV clip 58K views; TheBritLad 75K views (as displayed on trending page 6 Nov). Debate still live 5 Nov: Guardian slavery-apology pieces, Welby 'group punishment' remarks (GB Trends 'justin welby'), Mirror poll piece 5
Misleading
The £40 million figure is real — Andy Burnham's government approved £40m over three years for Caribbean infrastructure and green energy at the November 2026 Commonwealth summit — but the post misleadingly presents it as a slavery reparations payout made in response to Caribbean demands, when Downing Street said it was unrelated to reparations, drew it from existing budgets, and Burnham has ruled out direct reparations.
X · Primary post 3,759 likes / 87 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06); identical copy-paste text posted by several accounts through 5 Nov (Misbar lists 4)
Misleading
The video is genuine footage of Trump's 4 June 2025 White House "Summer Soiree" and the "four more years, maybe eight more years" quote is accurate — but the post repackages a 17-month-old clip as "BREAKING" news in November 2026.
X · Matecki post 1,831 likes / 327 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); Jakubiak post 5,317 likes / 476 replies; covered 5 Nov by Konkret24 (st9323475), RMF24, Onet, Wprost, Fakt, Super Express, Dziennik, Niezalezna, TV Republika, wPolityce, Tysol; German ambassador Miguel Berger issued a statement (soldiers
Misleading
The video is genuine self-shot footage of Bundeswehr vehicles on the grounds of the German embassy in Warsaw, a presence the German ambassador publicly confirmed — but the post presents an explained, ceremonial NATO-ally appearance as a sinister, unexplained German military incursion.
X · X post 406 likes / 64 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov). dpa says the image is 'currently' being shared again and fact-checked it 5 Nov. Also shared by author Rainer Zitelmann on Facebook. Seasonal: St. Martin's Day is 11 Nov · resurfaced
True But
The clip shows a plausible, apparently genuine photo of a kindergarten notice renaming its St Martin's parade 'Lichterfest' so all children feel included — a real, documented practice in German kindergartens — but the notice names no facility, town or date, so this specific case cannot be verified, and the caption's aggressive 'no consideration for anyone' framing is the poster's own far-right commentary rather than anything the notice says.
X · 11,699 likes, 1,235 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06 ~03:00Z); Lead Stories check 5 Nov, syndicated on Yahoo
False
The image is a fabricated screenshot of a Trump Truth Social post; no such message exists on his account or in any archive, and multiple fact-checkers have labelled it a forgery. The caption presents it as a genuine sign of things 'getting crazy on Truth Social', which is false.
X · 1,341 likes, 395 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06 ~03:00Z); embedded in HuffPost live blog
True But
The clip is genuine White House footage and the quoted exchange is accurately reported by the Associated Press and other outlets. Trump's on-camera claim that 'Russia is losing civilians also' is technically tinged but misleading, since documented Russian civilian deaths are a small fraction of the Ukrainian civilian toll and it was Russia that invaded.
X · X syndication shows ~106K likes and ~1.1K replies (checked 5 Nov); covered by IBTimes UK (5 Nov), AOL, Annahar and Dagens (4 Nov)
Opinion
The video is an AI-generated satirical clip, posted on 4 November 2026 by Iran's embassy in India to mock Donald Trump after the Republican Party's midterm defeat — not real footage of anything. It is openly comic in intent rather than a disguised factual claim, so the post is best read as hostile political satire.
X · Konkret24 (4 Nov): the A2 convoy video first got over 380k views on TikTok, then went to X, where the post asking 'Co robią u nas niemieckie wojska?' had over 160k views. 20 Minutes (5 Nov) and Libération CheckNews (4 Nov) also covered the 'German soldiers in Poland' claims.
False
The video is genuine dashcam footage of Bundeswehr vehicles (including a Feldjäger military-police van with 'Y' plates) on a Polish motorway in early November 2026, but the caption's claim that no foreign military exercises are taking place in Poland is false: the convoy belonged to the publicly announced German Grand Eagle 26 road move through Poland to Lithuania, and Poland's defence ministry had announced the multinational Koalicja 26.2 exercise in Poland for 9-22 November 2026.
TikTok · Wide pickup 3-5 Nov: BBC (article plus explainer video 5 Nov), Mirror, HuffPost UK, LBC, The Grocer, CBC, Fox Business; 10News ran 'Fact or Fiction: Kellogg's removing rice from Rice Krispies?' on 5 Nov; GMB on-air test showed silent bowl. No view counts given.
True
The clip is genuine Good Morning Britain footage of Ed Balls and Susanna Reid testing the reformulated UK Rice Krispies, and the underlying claim is accurate: Kellogg's did change the UK recipe (rice flour instead of whole rice grains, now with wheat gluten), and the company itself concedes the snap, crackle and pop is much quieter.
X · MEAWW says the rumour originated from this Spencer Hakimian X post; fact-check 4 Nov
Misleading
The tweet invents a Trump announcement: in his first post-election appearances on 4 November 2026 Trump never mentioned the $5,000 payment, let alone said no one would get it. The real story is that the payout was conditional on Republicans holding Congress, which they lost — so the money is indeed unlikely, but Trump did not 'say' so.
X · Mario Nawfal X post; MeidasTouch Facebook post; Snopes fact-check 4 Nov
True But
The video is genuine Fox News footage of President Trump's 3 November 2026 Election Day call-in, and the quoted remark — he would move to Israel and become prime minister, citing 99% approval there — was accurately reported. The boast inside the clip is baseless: no poll puts his Israeli approval near 99%, and he is legally ineligible to be Israeli prime minister.
X · Al Jazeera Arabic (5 Nov) analysed 750 reactions totalling ~52M views; Trump Jr. quote-post >5.5M views; X syndication shows ~273K likes, ~63K replies (checked 5 Nov); Trump responded via RapidResponse47 clip; Iran's Ghalibaf quote-posted it
True But
The post reproduces JD Vance's 4 November 2026 postmortem of the Republican midterm defeat, and its core factual premises hold up: Democrats did win both chambers with about a 13-point House popular vote margin, and large numbers of 2024 Trump voters did shift to Democrats. His internal campaign data is unpublished and his claim that the Iran war was the reason for the loss is contested interpretation rather than verifiable fact.
X · Multiple X posts making the same claim (Red Media, Dr. Sam Youssef) embedded by Snopes; Snopes fact-check 4 Nov
Misleading
The photo of Nicki Minaj is a genuine press image, but the caption's central claim is false: not every Republican she endorsed lost, since Byron Donalds won Florida's governorship, and Mississippi's Senate race was still uncalled. The post is only partly right — Democrats did take Texas and the Georgia governorship in the 3 November 2026 midterms.
X · Shared by Iran's embassy in Lebanon (official account) plus Indian/Pakistani X users; fact-checked by Newschecker in English, Hindi and Bengali on 5 Nov; origin is an AI parody ('Trump's Midterm Meltdown | AI Parody') uploaded by YouTube channel Eman Rus on 4 Nov. No view counts given.
Misleading
The video is AI-generated — the frames themselves carry an 'AI GENERATED' label and it traces to the AI-parody creator Eman Rus — so the depicted Oval Office rampage never happened. The caption's underlying premise, that Trump's Republicans were routed in the November 2026 midterms, is accurate, which makes the post a real political backdrop dressed up with a fake 'first decision'.
X · Spread in English and Arabic on X 4 Nov (Arabic reposts at 23:34-23:38Z 4 Nov, lt24h); primary ~125 likes, Arabic repost ~170 likes (syndication, 5 Nov); fact-checked by Kashif 5 Nov. No view counts given
False
The video is real but mislabelled: it shows Jordanian MPs performing the noon prayer in the Jordanian parliament in Amman on 3 November 2026, not Muslim members of the Israeli Knesset praying in the Knesset chamber. Fact-checkers Factly and Vishvas News rated the claim false.
X · Libs of TikTok and Gateway Pundit X posts cited by PolitiFact explainer 4 Nov
True But
The text-only post accurately reports the 3 November 2026 ballot-measure results: Ohio, North Carolina and Nevada did approve voter-ID amendments, and five states did approve citizenship-voting measures, though one of those five (Alaska) was a statute change rather than a constitutional amendment.
X · Shared by BC politician Nathan Cullen; Niagara Parks responded (teal lighting for Alzheimer's Awareness Month); two fact-check pickups
False
The photo of Niagara Falls lit blue is a real image, but the caption's claim that Canada illuminated the falls in solidarity with the Democrats is false — the night's scheduled display was teal for Alzheimer's Awareness Month, and the illumination board bans partisan political lighting.
X · Fact-check pickup; Paxton publicly conceded on election night
False
The image is a fabricated broadcast graphic, not a real NBC News screenshot: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton never released the quoted statement denying his loss, and he in fact conceded the Texas Senate race to James Talarico on election night. The post's endorsement of the supposed statement spreads an election-denial falsehood.
X · Fact-check pickup; original January 2026 Instagram photo shows a different cap
False
False. Tate McRae never posted a MAGA-cap voting story. The image is an AI-altered version of a real mirror selfie she posted on Instagram on 29 January 2026, where she holds a red Adidas cap with no political slogan. Three AI detectors and Lead Stories confirmed the edit; no such story exists on her account.
X · Shared in English, Arabic and Hindi by multiple accounts (Misbar); no view counts given
Misleading
The crowd footage is genuine but was filmed at Federation Square in Melbourne in late 2022 during Socceroos World Cup celebrations, not during any 2026 US midterm announcement. The election facts the caption cites are accurate — Texas did flip Democratic and Democrats won both chambers — but the video is falsely attached to them.
X · AI video first posted by Iran's embassy in India went viral; many users took it as real and pages used screengrabs as thumbnails
False
The image is not real footage: it is a screengrab from an openly satirical AI-generated video posted by the Iranian Embassy in India on 4 November 2026, repackaged here as 'JUST IN' breaking news. Trump did not faint or get rushed out of the White House — though the underlying election result (a Democratic sweep of both chambers) is genuine.
X · Circulating in Arabic and English; covered by several fact-check outlets 3-4 Nov
False
The graphic is built on a fabricated Elon Musk tweet: no such post exists on @elonmusk, and the wording comes from another user's joke that was edited to look like a Musk announcement. The Musk photograph is real, but the inserted tweet card making the claim is fake.
X · Video aimed at US audiences covered by Revista Fórum; no view count given
False
The clip is genuine PBD Podcast footage from US midterm night in early November 2026, in which Eduardo Bolsonaro tells American viewers that Brazil's 25 October 2026 runoff was stolen. That claim is false: Lula beat Flávio Bolsonaro by 4.4 million votes in a result certified by the TSE, recognised by about 100 countries and observer missions, accepted by Flávio's own party, and the voting-hours extension he cites was requested by both campaigns and involved only about 35,500 votes.
X · Many users reposted a screen recording; the deleted Musk post had nearly 12M views when archived (Snopes)
True
The screenshot accurately reflects what happened: Elon Musk did post "Vote red today!" on X on Election Day, 3 November 2026, and the post was gone by the next morning after Republican midterm losses. The claim is confirmed by multiple independent outlets and by X's own Grok chatbot.
X · Fact-check pickup; screenshot circulating among Canadian users
False
The attached image is a fabricated Truth Social screenshot: Donald Trump never posted an offer of 'associate membership in the United States' to Mark Carney and Canadians on 3 November 2026, as Lead Stories confirmed after checking his live and archived feeds. The post's approving caption rests entirely on that invented statement.
X · Farage mocked for his election prediction; HuffPost UK piece with replies embedded; Guardian sketch
Misleading
The video is a genuine GB News live segment from US midterm election day, but the on-air argument that Republicans would beat the polls and avoid a rout was refuted within hours as Democrats swept both chambers of Congress, and Farage misattributed a 98% Clinton probability to the New York Times.
X · 243 likes, 63 replies on X (syndication, 4 Nov); Newschecker fact-check 4 Nov; MEA statement on the attack on merchant vessel MSV Al Jusufi off Oman
False
The video is real footage of a burning Indian-flagged cargo dhow, but the caption is false: MSV Al Jusufi was a commercial vessel hit by an unidentified aerial object off Oman on 2 November 2026, one sailor died and 13 were rescued — not 13 Navy personnel killed by the Iranian Navy.
X · 10.8K likes on X (syndication, 4 Nov); HuffPost coverage of Trump reacting on air as Fox called Minnesota for Flanagan
True
The video is genuine Fox News election-night footage: the network called Minnesota's Senate race for Peggy Flanagan while Trump was live on the phone, and he did claim on air that he had won Minnesota three times — a claim he has repeated but which is false.
X · 455 likes on primary; Russian Embassy reply ("Please stop copying silly AI fakes") 3.1K likes; MEA FactCheck "Fake Alert" 8.1K likes; covered by Organiser, BOOM, Factly, The Quint, Newschecker
False
The video is a deepfake: real footage of Sergey Lavrov from a 30 October 2026 press conference with AI-generated audio and re-synced lips putting words about India in his mouth. Fact-checkers, India's MEA and the Russian Embassy confirmed Lavrov never made the remarks.
X · 31K likes, 413 replies on X (syndication, 4 Nov); picked up by Skwawkbox 3 Nov
Misleading
The clip appears to be genuine night footage from real clashes near Kyiv on 2 November 2026, but the caption is misleading: independent reporting says police fired warning shots into the air and used tear gas, and Ukrainian authorities called the 'torture chamber' and death reports fake, while a Russian propaganda push framed the incident as a nationwide Gestapo-style torture system.
X · 3.5K likes, 700 replies on X (syndication, 4 Nov); covered by TVN24, Interia, rp.pl, Onet, Newsweek.pl; Border Guard said nobody tried to cross
True
The video is genuine TVP Info footage of Donald Tusk's 3 November 2026 briefing, and the caption quotes his remarks on intelligence warnings of a possible armed incursion and on 'individuals with flashlights' at the Polish-Russian border essentially verbatim. The one element that outruns the record is the 'foiled provocation' framing: the Border Guard said nobody tried to cross, and Tusk himself said the intent could not be confirmed.
X · 18.2K likes, 3.2K replies on X (syndication, 4 Nov); HuffPost UK, GB News, Joe coverage 4 Nov
True
The Sky News clip is genuine footage of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed telling Sky News correspondent James Matthews he wants 'zero' votes in the UK and would not answer his questions; the caption accurately describes the exchange, though El-Sayed's on-camera claim that Sky News is not watched in the US is untrue.
X · 613 likes, 19 replies on X (syndication, 4 Nov); copied by other accounts; fact-checked by Misbar and Kashif 4 Nov
Misleading
The video is real firefighting footage, but it is not ADNOC: it shows the June 2016 magnesium-fed warehouse fire in Maywood, California, reposted as a fresh Iranian strike on Emirati oil facilities. The claim is misleading, and Misbar's fact-check reached the same conclusion on 4 November 2026.
X · 28K likes, 1.6K replies on X (syndication, 4 Nov); covered by CNN and Mediaite; RNC election-integrity account said the van was a county vehicle
Misleading
The footage is genuine: it shows San Diego County election workers lawfully emptying an overflowing drop box on Election Day 2026. But the post's framing is misleading — county officials and even the RNC's own election-integrity monitors said the ballots were being transported normally to the central counting site, not mishandled or taken to a dump.
X · 4.4K likes, 273 replies on X (syndication, 4 Nov); Fox spokesperson denied the graphic aired
False
The image is a fabricated Fox News-style 'WINNER: Stacey Abrams' graphic, and the claim is false: Abrams was not on the ballot in Georgia's 2026 Senate race and Fox News made no such call — the AP declared Jon Ossoff the winner over Mike Collins on 3 November 2026.
X · 172 likes on X (syndication, 4 Nov); covered by dev.ua and Hromadske; Kyiv Independent editor confirmed a breach
True
The claim is accurate: Kyiv Independent's editor-in-chief confirmed the outlet's CMS and newsletter service were hacked and a Russian-language email falsely claiming a nuclear warhead had been launched at Kyiv was sent to subscribers, with reporting attributing the operation to Russia. The attached image is a screenshot of that fraudulent email.
